Twenty-First Anniversary Twelftli Graduating Exercises

¥®B. X V- IHBIltJ! IJSMIgWRIHIi gOP®®Ii, CffHIiIjBIiB, PR. JAflROP, 19®®. N®. 12' dian had been in his family for quite a some eighteen years ago, and said in- Twenty-first Anniversary number of years; that he was a self sup part: —AND— porting Christian gentl*-man,and he com It is not many years ago that our fore mended him to my good graces for a visit fathers were always in war with the white- Twelftli Graduating Exercises. to this Carlisle School. I talked with the boy a little while and found that this was my Apache boy of eighteen or nine teen years before. He is here tonight. He GAIN the crowning week of the tered a large class of girls in graceful gym represents the true Carlisle idea, that is, school year has come and tr^ne for nastic costumes of dark blue with white thatenvironment and opportunity does it A us, and the graduates of 1900 have neckties, who went through a series of If he don’t tell you the part of his story I stepped down from the Commencement free movements in perfect unison with the want him to, I will tell you after he gots stage It was a week crowded with eager piano, and were received with enthusias through. Richard Heyl He takes the interest. First among the Commence tic applause. The boys followed with the family name. It was Colonel Heyl, of m ent events was the lecture on Tuesday wand drill, after which girls and boys al the Insprctor General’s Department, now evening by Dr. Melaucthon Woohev ternating swung the Indian clubs with dead, who captured the boy, who still •Stryker, President of Hamilton C< ILge, intricate -crossing motion in perfect time. The girls marched out, and the young men went through the more difficult work with dumbbells. The finale was au exciting and hard fought game of basket ball. The usual informal meeting on Wednes day evening was announced as “a sort of Methodist class meeting. There is no programme; we let the meeting w7ork it self out in its own way.” After music by the Band and several General John Eaton, songs, Major Pralt said: Ex-Commissioner of Education. There has never been a Commencement man, when they fought with weapons, at this Indian School that I have not bows and arrows, and were defeated in been able to present a new argument in every battle; were driven back from east to west, and if it was not for the Rocky Mountains and the great Pacific Ocean D r M. W oolsey Stryker, H on. W illiam A. Jones, President of Hamilton College. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. whose rich voice and finished oratory de lives with Color el Heyi’s sister in Cam den, New Jersey. lighted a large audience of students and guests. Dr. Striker's subject was the Mr. Heyl was introduced and gave a character of Lincoln, “the gieatest man brief sketch of his capture and early ex of the century and the greatest American periences, to which Major Pratt put the following conclusion: save one.” He prefaced his lecture with words of sympathy for the red man, and I will take it up there. Senator Sewall’s % an eloquent tribute to the old chief Schan- note informed me that this young man, andore, “ the aged hemlock,” the unswerv- after going through the public schools, H on. James S. Sherman, N ew York. Chairman House Indian Committee. favor of the Carlisle idea. This Com mencement will be no exception. Within Dr Merrill E. Gates, a few months after we began here at Car- Secretary Board of Indian Commissioners li-le I received a letter from an old army the white man would be driving us yet comrade of mine. He had recently been today. The war between the red man promoted to the Inspector General’s De and the white man has not ceased yet, partment. We had served together out and we must win a victory, but we are in Western Texas and Indian Territory, not fighting with weapons any more; the and he had afterwards gone out into Ari old method of fighting is dead. What are zona. He told me that in one engagement we fighting with then? We are fighting there he had captured a young Apache with wisdom, with knowledge. To do child; that he had sent it east—a boy, to this you must have education. Now as I live with his own family in Camden, New told 3 on, you must prepare yourselves for Jersey. The boy had been there some the battle. You have the chances now to years; had been attending the public get education ; if you don’t get education schools, but knowing that there was an now that is your fault, only yours. Senator J. W. Thurston, N ebraska, Indian'School established so near he de Miss E stelle Reel, Education is something that, you must Chairman Senate Indian Committee. cided that was the place for his Indian Superintendent U. S. Indian Schools, have. Education is what you need. E d boy. I knew him we'l and I wrote to ucation is something that you never can ing friend of the whites, whose mortal re was, at his instance, placed in the m a him. I said, “Your Indian is a great chine shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad lose again, once you have it. If you don’t mains lie beside those of his “white deal better off where he is than he would in Camden, New Jersey, as an apprentice; get it vou are simply the loser I had ti e brother” on a green hillside near H am il be here. I propose to put every Indian I privilege once, but I was young an i fool ton College. he served his time and for nine years past can get hold of out into the public schools, he has been at work in the same shop, ish, like a good many, and I thought there The programme for Wednesday after for I believe that the public schools can was no place like home. I returned home noon included an <mt-door band concert, and his ordinary salary is about three civilize the Indian far quicker and better before I finished my studies, and I regret drill and inspection of industries. The dollars per day. than any Indian School. (Applause.) He it today. (Applause.) day was cold but pleasant. Shortly after Miss Zitkala Sa appeared iu Indian cos dropped the matter there. Nineteen Major Pratt: Now the Senator, Sen one o’clock the gymnasium galleries were tume, and gave an artistic rendering of thronged with people, eager to witness years after that, there appeared upon “The P’amine” from Hiawatha, which ator Quarles. He didn’t know he bad a the object lesson in physical culture which these grounds a young man with an she had prepared for the meeting of the constituent here. Senator Quarles, of is among the most attractive features of Apache»face. I knew him at once; knew Lonefellow Memorial Association in Wisconsin these occasions at Carlisle. where he belonged. He presented to me Washington, D. C. Senator Quarles said in part: First came the regular company drill in a letter from a Senator of the United Ackonimy Neopet, known in later years That is one of the brightest constituents full uniform, which was performed with States—Senator Sewell of New Jersey. as Reginald Oshkosh, was introduced as I have seen since I have been in Washing- machine-like accuracy. Then there en The Senator told me that this young In- a student of this school from Wisconsin (Continued on page 4.) 2 THE RED MAN—MARCH, 1900, TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN. the day is coming, we may hope, when if nothing had hindered its journey, so it signboards and what great object lessons education and training the younger gene is with those who have been successful. we ought to be! ration will be the road to freedom from SUGGESTED BY COMMENCEMENT AT CARLISLE. People who seek for pleasure only, are, If every one of us could but realize the this slavery for my race; and they will like the sunken rivers, soon lost from great responsibility that rests upon us, we Y BROTHER, with the pierciDg eyes. gladly and cheerfully follow the white sight. The swarthy cheek, the distant mien, would work continually toward the stand In whose impassive port is seen man’s trail to the doorway of peace and These two views of life show us that, in ard which our dear friend and schoolfather The habit of free centuries; happiness through civilization and citi order to succeed, we must be prepared to Major Pratt, daily points out to us. Stu The dignity that scorns surprise,— zenship—the doorway to freedom, out in meet the dangers that lie before us. Hillis dents of Carlisle, must we let the efforts Brave without hope, and proud, I ween. to a higher liberty in equal rank with the says, “ Man is a pilgrim, and conscience is Only of something that has been, put forth in our behalf be in vain? No! And in the dead past buried lies,— best people of the world. Then the red the guide, leading him saftly through for We must respond to the call of duty. Look up—with happier courage face men that are violating the laws of the ests aud thickets, restraining from the Oh! that, the time may hasten when we This modern strife; accept the plan Government and disturbing the peace, paths of wrong, pointing out the ways of shall be as one with every civilized people.

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